Politics

Just weeks after it was revealed that the Pentagon attempted to bury a study, that it itself had actually commissioned, which revealed staggering financial waste on Department of Defense programs, John McCain has proposed a new military budget that would exceed Obama's proposed spending by $430 billion over 5 years and total over $5 trillion, in aggregate.  In a 33-page white paper called "Restoring American Power", McCain described his proposals as just a start toward repairing the "damage that has been done to our military over the past eight years" under the Obam

Dr Udo Ulfkotte, the  journalist and author, who spoke out about mainstream and fake news, reportedly died from a heart attack on January 13th at the age of 56. The former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of largest newspapers in Germany, had admitted that he -in effect- ‘worked’ for the CIA and that he had been educated to lie to and betray the public. His fears for a war in Europe, lead him to his decision to expose the truth about corporate media being controlled by the financial class. (See Video below)..

With US Shale production surging, and now Brazil declining Saudi Arabia's request to cut production, doubts are continuing to rise over OPEC's deal and the hopes for balance in the energy markets.

As Bloomberg reporets, Brazil Energy Minister Fernando Coelho Filho said during an in interview in Davos...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a strongly worded “urgent” warning to Donald Trump, telling the President-elect that the CIA plan to orchestrate a violent coup against him.  Putin says he sees the U.S. spy agencies using “Maidan-style” methods previously used in Ukraine to orchestrate a violent coup that will either see Trump killed or removed from office. Referring to the current administration as “worse than prostitutes,” Putin rejected the claims that Russia helped Trump win the election, and warned that the U.S.

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

And they have much in common.

Both came out of the popular culture, Reagan out of Hollywood, Trump out of a successful reality TV show. Both possessed the gifts of showmen — extraordinarily valuable political assets in a television age that deals cruelly with the uncharismatic.